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peony Top Member Posts: 4,719	Growing on neighbours hedge Aug 26, 2011 8:44:13 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by peony on Aug 26, 2011 8:44:13 GMT I think I might give this plant a try. I've got a large round yew in the front garden and I see T&M sell bare root plants. Is this the best way to buy it or is it better to buy an established plant?
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Geranium Top Member Posts: 13,081	Growing on neighbours hedge Aug 26, 2011 11:53:00 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Geranium on Aug 26, 2011 11:53:00 GMT My experience won't help, sorry - they were both potted plants, Peony.

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Growing on neighbours hedge Aug 26, 2011 12:15:51 GMT

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Aug 26, 2011 11:53:00 GMT Geranium said:

My experience won't help, sorry - they were both potted plants, Peony.

In view of your experience Geranium, I will probably try the bare root plants, 2 for £9.99 from T&M, as this will be the cheaper option, so if they fail I won't have lost too much ;D

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Growing on neighbours hedge Aug 26, 2011 16:41:14 GMT

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Post by Fractal on Aug 26, 2011 16:41:14 GMT

Bare root is fine Peony. We used to dig loads up in the winter at work (when we had more garden and hedges before the take over

) and pot the rhizomes up. They grew perfectly well from them.

Cherry, you should find that once established it will take the driest of soils. The rhizomes on established plants can be finger thick and store water too.

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Growing on neighbours hedge Aug 26, 2011 16:47:46 GMT

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Post by Cherry on Aug 26, 2011 16:47:46 GMT

Thanks for that SteveN. I got one from Notcutts in Oxford when I lived near there and it died quite quickly so I took it back. They apologized and said they were too young to be out of the greenhouse really and that had happened to others. That did upset me. Even taking it back was upsetting, but they stopped getting them. Very chalky soil over there, but I would have put it in my acid bed with a pond liner, beside the camellia, etc. I will look out for one to plant in the good fen soil here.

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Growing on neighbours hedge Aug 26, 2011 17:54:35 GMT

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Aug 26, 2011 16:41:14 GMT Fractal said:

Bare root is fine Peony. We used to dig loads up in the winter at work (when we had more garden and hedges before the take over

That's good to know Steve

I'll pot them up and over-winter in the greenhouse and plant out next Spring.

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Growing on neighbours hedge

Post by peony on Aug 26, 2011 8:44:13 GMT

Post by Geranium on Aug 26, 2011 11:53:00 GMT

Post by peony on Aug 26, 2011 12:15:51 GMT

Post by Fractal on Aug 26, 2011 16:41:14 GMT

Post by Cherry on Aug 26, 2011 16:47:46 GMT

Post by peony on Aug 26, 2011 17:54:35 GMT

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